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Patented July 14*, 1885.

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SHEET GONVEYBR FOR FOLDING MACHINES. No. 322,344.

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SHEET-CONVEYERTFOR FOLDING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.3 22,344, dated July 14, 1885.

Application filed August 4, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and-useful Improvements in Sheet-Oonveyers for Connecting a Printing-Press with a Folding-Ma chine; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to-which it appertains to make and use the same. V

This invention relates to sheet-conveying appliances for connecting paper-folding machines with printingpresses, so that the printed sheets will be conveyed from the press to the folder. j

The objects, purposes, and scope of this invention will be fully set forth in the following description, and pointed out in the claims.

The invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows: Figure 1 is a top or plan View showing a fragment of the press A, the folder B, and my improved conveyer O, adjusted between the press and the folder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing a fragment of the press A, the folder B, and the conveyer C, adjusted between the press and the folder. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the conveyer on the line 00 0c in Fig. 1, the scale being enlarged and the figure shortened by breaking out parts.

The conveyer consists of a board or table, 0, upon which are adjusted two sets of conveying-rollers, E f and E f, which convey the sheet along the board or table from the press to the folder, together with means for operating said rollers, and also means for keeping the sheet inplace upon the table.- The conveyer is so, constructed that it can be adjusted, as shown, between the press and the folder, or quickly and easily removed from that position when not wanted. When in position, it is operated from a belt-pulley, B, on the folder by a belt, 0 When put in position for use, no adjustment is required except to put it in proper place and adjust the belt 0'.

The construction, as illustrated in the drawings, is as follows: A represents the press; a, the delivery-tapes of the press; B, the folder;

I), the tapes of the folder, and Othe convey er-table. 0 a, &c., are notches at the upper end of the conveyer-table, which span or embrace the delivery-tape rollers of the press.

conveying-rollersE E to operate through. D

and Dare the shafts of the conveyer-rollers E and E, respectively. F and F. are the shafts of theconveyer-rollers f and f, respectively. H and H are the hangers or brackets of the shafts D and D and F and F, respectively. G and G are bridges which support guides g, which lie near the conveyer-table and keep the sheets in place upon the table while passing along it.

The conveying-roller shafts D and D are driven as follows: The belt 0 passes from the pulley B to a pulley, G, on the shaft D. These pulleys are so proportionedthat the speed of the conveyer-rollers E on the shaft 1) will be the same as the speed at which the sheet leaves the delivery-tapes a of the press. The shaft D, which carries the conveyer-rollers E, is driven from the shaft D by the pulleysd and d and belt (2 The pulleys d and d I so proportion that the rollers E will move slower than the rollers E. This may not always be required; butthe object of it is to slow down the speed of the sheet so it will enter the folder at less speed than it left the a press. In passing across the space between the rollers E to E thesheets will gather or 2. In a sheeteonveyer for connecting a, 15

printing-press with a folding-machine, the combination, substantially as described, of the table 0, having notches and slots, as described, the shafts D and D with rollers E and E, the shafts F and F with the rollers f 20 andf, and the bridges G and G, holding the guides g g g, &c.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD T. BROXVN.

Vitnesses:

JNo. K. I-IALLOOK, RoB'r. H. PORTER. 

